Issue 671
Quarantine Creativity
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Oleksandr Shcherban Wendy Doornink of Hirshfield’s shares how paint can be used to spruce up our homes during quarantine. If we’re all stuck staring at the same four walls every day, we might as well change up the view a bit. Wendy Doornink, color services manager of Hirshfield’s, says that painting offers…
Winter Gardening With Bachman’s
Photo courtesy of Bachman’s So far this year we have lucked out with a mostly mild winter (can we call it luck when it is actually climate change?), but there is no doubt that some of us are already suffering from the winter doldrums. If the shortened daytime hours are getting to you, I have…
A Home For Everybody
Amy Ruzick. Photo by Christi at Grinkie Girls The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance is dedicated to helping more LGBTQ+ folks and allies become homeowners. Discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation is protected under federal law, allowing legal discrimination in twenty-seven states, which causes barriers for LGBTQ+ folks who are trying to…
Taking Control; Living Your Best Life: Livea
Photos courtesy of Livea Personal fitness doesn’t have to be a pipe-dream. Weight loss really is a journey and shouldn’t be viewed as a quickly fixed issue. Livea’s process is a long-term solution to a person’s specific weight control needs. Livea focuses heavily on education and teaching healthy lifestyles. Kat Perkins (The Voice) first learned…
Best Advantage Mortgage
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Kanjana Kawfang For those of us who don’t show up to a real estate closing with a briefcase full of cash, there’s a critical piece to the property puzzle that shouldn’t be overlooked: the mortgage. How many homes did you tour? I’m positive you didn’t settle on the first place you looked…
Minnesota Black History: Part 1
The Honorable Wilhelmina M. Wright received her federal judicial commission on February 18, 2016. Image courtesy of Wilhelmina M. Wright Minnesota may be a skosh north of north, but that doesn’t exempt us from a long, complicated history with civil rights. Slavery was never a legal practice in Minnesota, but that’s not to say it…
2021 Twin Cities Auto Show
Usually by this time, we would be talking about an auto show – or several. Last year’s COVID-19 pandemic has postponed all of the major auto shows in the U.S.A. until spring 2021 and beyond. That did not stop the producers of the Twin Cities Auto Show from thinking outside the box. Instead of a…
Books: 671
Lazarus Rising Joseph Caldwell Delphinium Books $24.95 Artist Dempsey Coates meets fireman Johnny Donnegan after offering a place to him and crew after extinguishing a conflagration near her Tribeca loft. Johnny falls in love, they join, separate, rejoin, but Dempsey contracted AIDS through intravenous drug use. Catholic Johnny wants to marry, but Church marriage is…
Leather Life: Rubber, Leather and Bootblacks in November
Photo by Bigstock/fortton I am beginning to allow myself to feel hopeful for the future. A little bit, anyway. News item: The International Mr. Leather/International Mr. Bootblack (IML/IMBB) weekend has been scheduled to take place November 11-14, 2021, in Chicago. Further news item: IML/IMBB’s scheduled time slot is the week after the 25th Mr. International…
From the Editor: Pockets of Perks
Photo by Bigstock/photoKrat Minnesota winters were built for hunkering down. We’ve reached the point of no return in our annual deep freeze—staying inside is a cornerstone to survival, pandemic or not. We were going to do that anyway… It’s always a joy to pull my long-stored parka from the closet and dig through the pockets….
